Standard definitions of persistence length do not describe the local "Intrinsic" stiffness of real polymer chains

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3094-3102

  Hsu, Hsiao Ping ^a   Paul, Wolfgang ^b   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; CHAIN MOLECULES; CONTOUR LENGTHS; LATTICE MODELS; LINEAR CHAIN; LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; POLYMER CHAINS; POWER LAW; SCATTERING FUNCTIONS; SELF AVOIDING WALK; SIDE CHAIN LENGTHS; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLVENT CONDITIONS; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; STANDARD TEXTBOOK;

BOTTLES; BRUSHES; CHAIN LENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLASMAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLVENTS; STANDARDS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77951896883     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma902715e     Document Type: Article

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